Security company in Randburg for homes and small businesses

Randburg became a town in 1959 and ran its own municipality until it was absorbed into the City of Johannesburg in the late 1990s. It sits between Roodepoort to the west and Sandton to the east, on the north-western edge of greater Johannesburg, and today it is a real mix. Suburbs such as Ferndale and Blairgowrie have freestanding homes, townhouses and apartment blocks within a few streets of each other. Republic Road, Malibongwe Drive and Bram Fischer Drive carry shops, offices and showrooms. Broadcasters and media companies have their head offices here, and Strijdom Park is a light-industrial area with a large motor trade.

So when someone in Randburg asks us for a quote, the first question is what kind of property it is. A home, a block of flats and a workshop each need a different starting point, even on the same street.

Strijdom Park lies between the N1 Western Bypass and Malibongwe Drive and is known for its car sales and repair businesses. Sites like these share one challenge: during the day the site is busy and full of people, and at night it is empty but full of customers' vehicles, tools and parts.

What we usually suggest:

• Cameras covering the gate, the yard and the workshop doors, with a picture clear enough at night to show what's happening.
• 24-hour off-site monitoring of those cameras and the alarm, so someone is watching after closing time, not just recording for you to check in the morning.
• Biometric access control on staff doors and stores, so you know who opened what and when.
• Criminal background checks for new staff who will handle customers' vehicles and keys.

Some business owners prefer a night guard on site. That's an option too: we supply commercial guards, and plenty of sites combine a guard at the gate with cameras watched off-site, because one person can only be in one place at a time.

Plenty of Randburg's offices and shops are small premises: a handful of staff, a reception or counter, and parking at the front or back. For these premises the priorities are simple: know who comes in, and see what happens when nobody is there.

That usually means fingerprint access for staff instead of keys that get copied, a camera on the entrance and the parking area, and an alarm linked to monitoring for after hours. If you're in a shared office park, we work with what the landlord already provides and secure your own unit inside it.

If your home already has an alarm, it probably relies on sensors inside the house. The weak spot is usually outside. By the time an indoor sensor triggers, someone is already inside. Outdoor beams in the garden and along the side passages pick up movement in the yard, while there is still time for the alarm and the monitoring to do their job.

We also look at the back and side boundaries, especially where a property backs onto a lane, a business or a park rather than another home. An electric fence on those walls and a camera on the back line may be worth adding. In townhouse complexes and apartment blocks, the body corporate handles the gate and the outer wall, so your own alarm and a camera at your front door cover the rest.

Tell Marco the make of your current alarm panel. He'll tell you straight whether we can add to it, so you only pay for what's missing.